PATERFAMILIAS

To my grandmother who was abused and denigrated by an authoritarian husband. To her that when she was not beaten was impregnated, as sign of ‘love’ and punishment and often beaten while she was expecting, as sign of correction and discipline.

This body of work investigates the phenomenon of patriarchy, evoking the sentiments/resentments generated by a male dominated family experience represented through symbolism and surrealism as revisitation of my memories. Paterfamilias is a discussion of a still existent social-cultural issue, describing an unsafe shelter, the conflict, sense of oppression and impediment as response to an atmosphere of constriction and captivity. Trapped ego, desire to emerge ,echo of resistance, tangible tension through the re-creation of a toxic domestic space and dysfunctional families dynamics.